Bill Text: TX HB3225 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the recording of open meetings held by certain water districts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-25 - Left pending in committee [HB3225 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3225-Introduced.html
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By: Tepper | H.B. No. 3225 |
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relating to the recording of open meetings held by certain water | ||
districts. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 49, Water Code, is amended | ||
by adding Section 49.0645 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 49.0645. RECORDING OF MEETINGS. (a) The board shall | ||
make an audio recording of reasonable quality of each open meeting | ||
held by the board. | ||
(b) A recording made under this section must be: | ||
(1) if the district maintains an Internet website: | ||
(A) made available on the Internet website of the | ||
district not later than the fifth day after the date of the meeting; | ||
and | ||
(B) maintained on the Internet website of the | ||
district until the first anniversary of the meeting date; or | ||
(2) if the district does not maintain an Internet | ||
website: | ||
(A) made available to the public at the regular | ||
office of the district; and | ||
(B) maintained until the first anniversary of the | ||
meeting date. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |